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THE DALTON CITIZEN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1921.
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DALTON, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1921.
Limitation of arms should limit pistol-toting.
Mussel Shoals is right, brethren. Quit spelling
it Muscle .
The women should register- at once, because
they will certainly want to vote for school bonds.
If there is anything uglier than a pretty woman
smoking a cigarette we have not yet come across
it
The Tax Dodger Is the Great Offender.
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Dalton doesn’t need a “stingy” administration
of her affairs. She needs a busines sadministra-
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tion.
Loafing never got anybody anywhere except to
the poorhouse. The vagrancy laws should be en
forced.
People who are eccentric are at least tolerable,
while those who affect eccentricity are simply a
National Park in North Georgia.
* The bill introduced in congress by Hon. Gordon
Lee, which has for its purpose the making of a
national park of the timbered section of Northeast
Georgia is a wise and generous move. It will
take such legislation as the Lee bill to protect
the timber and streams of this section, and when
they are protected so will fish and game receive
the protection they are entitled to, if they are to
be preserved.
Congressman Lee evidently has in'mind a great
national park of the Yellowstone type, to be
stocked with fish and game and protected by the
government.
The Lee bill will in all probability go through,
and if it does, it will be a great boon to this sec
tion of the state.
Included in the reservation will be part of the
Cohutta mountains where there is yet some wild
life and mountain fish.
With the streams and forests under the protect
ing care of the federal government there will
soon be an abundance of game and fish in North
east Georgia, and a beautiful camping domain for
the thousands of people who find health, comfort
and happiness in the great outdoors.
Congressman Lee is to be commended for his
foresight in this matter, and should receive the
hearty support and cooperation of the people gen
erally. It is a master stroke that means much
not only to the northern section of Georgia, but
to all parts of the state. In fact it will prove a
great benefit to the entire south.
Some people can’t stand prosperity, and there
are others who can’t get in hailing distance of the
fickle dame.
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These here wool socks the ladies are wearing
may be all right, but hanged if they are worth
looking ’at. ,
A new high school building, a new hotel and a
fiew depot are the three things Dalton has her
heart set on.
The Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont observes that
“the man who does nothing does somebody.” He
generally does everybody.
Editor Rucker, of the Alpharetta Free Press,
wants to know if it is ever right to do wrong?
Well, if it is, all we got to say is that there is a
lot of right being donfe by doing wrong.
Are you interested in the men and women who
will be running and regulating Dalton in your de
dining years? If so, vote for bonds for a new
high school building that the boys and girls may
be properly educated to handle your affairs when
they are in the saddle.
Thanksgiving.
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The Cordele Dispatch agrees with The Citizen,
The Tifton Gazette and many other Georgia news
papers, _that the tax dodger is the real cause of
Georgia’s financial difficulties. There is no doubt
about it. Anyone who has intelligence and will
go to the tax books can see just exactly why the
ad valorem system of taxes is a failure. The prin
ciple is right and just, but its abuse by pious tax
dodgers has caused it to be denounced as a failure.
The same sort of tax dodgers will nullify any
other taxing system that can be devised. The way
to cure Georgia’s financial ills is to enforce right-
ebusly and justly the present taxing laws of this
state. And it must always be remembered that
those most able to pay taxes have within their
ranks the biggest tax dodgers.
Here is the way the Cordele editor sizes up the
situation:
The greatest tax troubles are-with the tax
dodger. We are just as certain that our pres
ent ad-valorem system is right in principle as
we can be. We only want a thorough-going,
serious conference with the property owner
- who is unwilling to turn in his property at
a fair valuation. That would put Georgia out
of bankruptcy. That would save all embar
rassment in debt paying. It is possible to
reach a point where all property can be sub
jected to taxation at a fair valuation. There
is only one way for property to be turned in
for taxes—the law says it shall go in at a fair .
valuation. Whoever fails that, violates the
law and swears to a lie every time he turns
in his property at anything less. We.afe not
looking for trouble with those who fail to
return their property according to law. We
only want to remind each tax payer that it
is not an excuse for him to violate the law if
another person does.
One might just as logically conclude that
since somebody rise breaks into his neigh
bor’s house and steals, he may also do like
wise. One man does not need to become a
burglar because another does. The habit of
turning in ane’s property at less than fair
valuation because another man does, is sim
ply following just such a course. Everybody
who does that violates the law. You do not
want to perjure yourself in your property
returns. Think over it.
Now, we have other trouble with state fi
nances. -We are sending men to the state leg-
isture who do not stop to ascertain whether
they are spending more money than the state
has to spend each year. The state has no
more right to live beyond its means than
individual, and not as much, because public
institutions should never dare set such an
example for the individual citizen.
There are many, many good causes for
which public funds might be spent, but it is
unworthy of any public representative or
group of representatives to spend more than
the state gathers for its use. We had quite
a big row last summer over this—and we
heard campaign pledges that those who were
elected would not spend more than they have
coming, in. We are in the same bad way.
The legislature did not end any of this spend
ing. It appropriated much more money than
it will have to spend—something like two
millions more. This is another trouble which
much be checked and remedied.
But let the individual tax payer keep in
mind that neither what the legislature does
with the money, nor what his neighbor turns
in for taxation has a solitary tiling to do
with his honesty with himself and his con
science as to how he turns in his property
for taxes. It is far better to have a clear
conscience. All the taxes we pay, or will
ever have to pay are small indeed compared
with the duty one owes himself in keeping
his conscience clear with regard to having
paid his full and fair portion of taxes. . We
do not want to stop with the idea that we
have kept within the law. We want more
than that. We want to say in the end that
we have done our full duty. That’s the ker
nel of all the consolation in a man’s last
days in the world.
Thanksgiving.
Again we turn from the regular routine of daily
work and play for a day of devotion and thanks
giving, and from every village and city litanies
of thanksgiving will rise.
The world in its rush and its race will pause
to voice its appreciation for the cessation of war,
will send up prayers for the success of the great
conference for the limitation of armaments, will
thank Jehovah for man’s many obvious blessings
In spirit we will of course join the hosts of grate
ful people, but this Thanksgiving day we ask that
.as a people we more fully appreciate the smaller,
but no les swell-designed, blessing we enjoy from
day to day which oftentimes we fail to recognize
as gifts from the divine.
May it be our good grace to render thanks for
The love that passeth understanding.
For health, without which man’s capatity for
enjoyment and power for good is lessened.
For the flowers which share with us their fra
grance.
For the laugh of little children as they play,
and for their good-night kiss.
For the sunshine, and for the dark days which
come to accentuate its wholesome cheer.
For the disappointments which make us strong
to enjoy, more deeply hard-won successes.
For a good dog whose loyalty inspires a strong
er devotion and a more intense fealty to our fel-
lowman.
For home ties that bind folk of many tempera
ments into one happy whole.
For the happiness that persistently creeps into
every crevice unless deliberately shut out
Yes, today we give thanks for what we are
prone to call the “little blesings,” and when all
creatures come to fully appreciate their means of
happiness and welfare, “joy and gladness shall
he found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of
elody.”
For the past ten years Georgia has been su Ber
ing from a severe malady, brought about by a
low, vicious order of politics. Lawlessness has
Been encouraged, the uob at intervals has been
in ihe saddle and lyndiings and tick-vac dynamit
ing have seemed to furnish ‘amusement a
weird sort of amusement—to the people who
cared for it, and it appears too many of them have
been “entertained” by the program prepared by
outlaws of the Watson type.
Good citizens should stand for law and enforce
ment, and the vital statistics law is just as im
portant as other laws. It is enforced in other
states, and the state board of health is calling on
the people to use their influence in order to secure
enforcement of this law, so that the state may
not longer bear the stigma that now rests upon
it. The public is well aware, or at least it should
be, of the importance of complete birth and death
records. It is necessary in order that vital sta^,
tistics of the state may be recognized by the fed
eral census bureau.
The people should take an interest in this mat
ter, and insist that the law be enforced.
Liberty bonds continue to go up. Soon they
will reach par, and maybe will'go above. Per
haps it is just as well that Tommyrot Watson did
not have them monetized.
“Our Tom” is jumping on Henry Ford and de
fending Newberry of Michigan. It wouldn’t be
Tom if he couldn’t make an ass of himself at least
three or four times a week.
Governor Hardwick is planning to pay the old
veterans at an early date. Here’s hoping, but if
the Continued looting bf state funds doesn’t soon
cease there will be nothing to pay with. All that
will be left will be office furniture and officials.
The Albany Herald, reproducing from The Cit
izen a short editorial with reference to the failure
to fly the flag from the Dalton postoffice flag pole,
very truthfully remarks that “the same thing is
to be observed in many towns—flag poles built
originally to hold Old Glory, but not used in many
years. We see them on public buildings and else
where, and every one is a reminder that we have
grown a little thoughtless and careless in these
matters. The flag ought to be prominently dis
played in every community, from the big city to
the little town. It has a meaning to every citizen,
and every boy and girl in the-Jand ought to be
taught to revere the flag because of all it stands
for. And these lessons cannot be very strongly
impressed upon young people when they note the
fact that their elders do not care enough for the
flag to fling it to the breeze.”
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CLIPPINGS AND COMMENTS
The authorities of Clarke county say that
crime is more rampant in that county than it
has been in twenty-five years.. The same is
true all over the state.—Winder News.
And of all other states in -this grand and glori
ous union.
and world conquest have inspired the loves of
some of the heroic men and women of the past,
but for one that became famous there must Dave ]
been millions that lived and loved joyously that
are utterly forgotten now. ,
So let me here pay tribute to the inspirational
power of the smiling love-lit face. No matter
when you meet it its magic influence will fill
your soul with gladness, a gladness as sweet and
precious as life itself. . .
The dimpled baby face that you loved and lost
—and that other face hallowed by precious mem
ories of motherhood—and that image of father,
that vision of mother; all thetfe love images pass
before your soul in silent procession, yet are
never lost, but become imperishable visions in
the realm of blessed memory.
So we see that it is love., and love memories
that are best. Most pleasures pall on us. in a
little while. But here is one joy of life that is
eternal, one source of supreme pleasure that is
open to the most obscure, the most humble soul.
So let us go back to simplicity, and peace, and
quiet and love. Striving after money and place
and power cannot justify the hungry heart. It
is love we need, a love that is so pure, so unsel
fish that it will take away the sting of poverty
and transform the hardest labor into a joyous
service. Such labor sweetens and beautifies all
life and makes the earth the abiding place of
peace. ~ HIRAM SMITH. '
When Universay Peace Will Come.
To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen:
Sitting in conference cad not bring peace to
the world. Peace can come only when the race
has reached that state of mental and spiritual
development that will wipe out national lines,
broaden love of tribe into love of humanity, and
unfurl the banner of Brotherhood over all men.
Every student of history knows that evolution
is the law of being. From the family the tribe
was evolved, and from the tribe the nation. The
tribal spirit must be eradicated and men must
come to think of themselves, not as citizens of
some one spot of the world, hut as human beings
—world citizens—with a common good, a com
mon cause and a common interest, before they can
dwell together in unbroken peace. It seems that a
child might realize the truth of this, but the rulers
and the great men have not yet realized it.
All through the ages the education of the race
has made war inevitable. Men thought of them
selves, not as children of the earth, through whose
veins rolled one tide, but as Egyptians or Syrians
or Chaldeans; as Romans or Greeks or Franks
or Gauls. That national pride and - prejudice
should not bring the conflict of arms was impossi
ble. The race still thinks of itself, not as a race
dwelling in one world and having one interest,
but as Englishmen or Frenchmen or German or
American; and still education is such as to cause
men to think themselves superior simply because
they dwell in a certain part of the earth. The
whole earht must become native land and all hu
man beings fellow citizens before everlasting
peace is possible.
The supreme folly is- the thought that humanity
in one part of -the world can prosper through the
oppression of humanity in another part of the
world. Men will lose this thought when in
creased mental and spiritual development brings
realization of the fact that the unchangeable laws
of being take no cognizance of national lives, but
operate alike on both sides of those lines.
I am a Georgian and I am an American and I
love "both as I love the blood in my.own veins;
but to be a human is infinitely greater than to be
either. A few miles away is.the state line. What
lies beyond that line? Native soil. Who dwell
beyond that line? Fellow citizens. When nation
al lines become to all humanity what state lines
are to Americans, Peace Will Be “Here.
JESSIE BAXTER SMITH.
Atlanta’s $8,000,000 bond issue has been proper
ly validated, and now she will begin to punch new
holes in her belt buckle.
Acceptance of Ford’s Mussel Shoals offer should
materially decrease the south’s ranks of unem
ployed, and loosen tight money.
Women, have you registered? The city election
will affect your well-being. It is your duty to
help elect the right office-holders.
Dalton’s Imperative Needs.
Most of us are given a degree of foresight, but
only the favored few are sufficiently endowed
with this, future-revealing faculty to realize the
great benefits a town will derive from a splendid
institution. To the average mind the. realization
comes gradually, but after a few years of satisfy
ing service we wonder how we managed with
make-shifts.
To cite a local example: The Hamilton Memo
rial Hospital. For a decade or longer fdrward-
thinking Daltonians have been awake to the need
of a central refuge for the sick, and had visioned
a modern hospital with its attending benefits.
But in candor, the layman had small conception
of the many people grateful for an opportunity
to receive scientific care near home, and few
anticipated the many times this institution would
prove the house of open doors in emergency.
As it was hard to accurately foresee the great
need the hospital would fill, so it i£ difficult to
fully appreciate how badly the town needs a new
station to handle passenger traffic, a new hotel for
transients and tourists, an adequate high school
building to make more effective our splendid fac
ulty’s work, the Baptist Junior school to give op
portunity to rural boys and girls seeking higher
education.
These specific things are what we are working
for, and^we hope we’ll have much cooperation in
gaining these objectives. With these, and other
improvements, Dalton will move onward to the
goal she has determined to reach.
People can’t do their work well unless they are
interested in it, and they can’t be very much in
terested in it if they are interested more in some
thing else.
Link Johnson has been tinned down by the sen
ate and it is up to Tom Watson to give the job to
some of his faithful followers, as he claims to
have “killed the b’ar.”
Enforce This Law.
All the states east of the Mississippi river have
the same law requiring the registration of births
aqd deaths, and only three of those states fail to
secure complete birth and death records, and
Georgia is one of them, the other two being Ala
bama and West Virginia.
In the early days of her history Georgia stood
near the top in matters of public education and
health, but now she stands almost at the other ex
treme. Her educational institutions, from the pub
lic schools on up, are suffering for lack of funds,
■ and yet Georgia is the richest state in the lower
South Atlantic group.
The democrats won out in the elections
held last week. This causes us to think the
people are regarding their lost senses.—
Greensboro Herald-Journal.
They are at |east beginning to think, and this
is a pretty good- sign that their senses will soon
be restored.
The first week of the arms conference was
apparently a great success. What most peo
ple will want to know, however, is how the
thing is going to end.—Rome Tribune-Herald.
If some envious d—n fool like Senator Lodge
doesn’t throw a monkey wrench in the machinery,
much good work is going to be accomplished by
the conference.
Probably the best explanation yet advanced
of the fact that President Harding’s own home
town went democratic is that of the Cleve
land Plain Dealer, which inclines to opine
that alT the Republicans living there have
been called to Washington.—Macon Tele
graph.
Well, it does sound reasonable. Those he
didif£ give a job are plainly showing their re
sentment.
Way down southe in the land of cotton, the
price is good but the freight rates rotten.—
Tom Sims.
Way dofan south we sit-and wait, because
darned few of us can pay N the freight.—Dal
ton Citizen.
Way down south we fuss and fret, because
d—n few of us are out of debt.—Madison
Madisonian.
Way down south things are brightening up,
soon we’ll be out of the goldarned rut.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger says there
are too many holidays, and we are wondering
if one of the reporters who has to work hard
er on holidays reporting the festivities or
whatever may be going on, didn’t slip that
into the paper while the editor wasn’t look
ing.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Too many holidays ^already, and more in the
offing. What is needed to bring this country back
to its senses is more work days and fewer loafing
days.
Two things we have felt were true have
been substantiated by W. T. Homady and Dr.
Copeland. That Muscle Shoals is really Mus
sel Shoals and that cucumbers are not good
food. Question three is now in order.—Dal
ton Citizen.
But Editor Ernest Camp of the Walton
Tribune, supported by other medical experts,
raises the point that Doc Copeland doesn’t
know anything about cucumbers. Question
three is not yet up for consideration.—Jack
Patterson, in Atlanta Journal.
Since when did Ernest Camp get to be a med
ical expert? Know he is a poet, an editor and
an all-’round good sport, but we like him so well
we can’t accuse him of being an expert.
The New Hotel, Then the New Depot.
To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen:
I notice a good deal of talk about the new hotel
for Dalton, and other improvements that the Civ-
itan Club has in hand just now. Being an old
Dalton boy I have always felt an interest in its.
future.
As I understand it, the Business Men’s club
serves the same purpose as our Chamber of Com
merce. We have here the best organized Cham
ber of Commerce in the south, which is doing
great work for the upbuilding of the town.
Jack Seay, an old Dalton boy, has charge of
the traffic department, and he is making good on
that job. If the hotel is built, which I feel sure
it will be, and the old hotel site and little park
leading down to the station graded and beautified,
then would be the time to press the new station
for Dalton.
My experience in railroad service has been that
the railroads always stand ready to improve with
the community, and I believe you can get the
new station as soon as the hotel is completed.
After you get the hotel and new station, you
can then invite people with pride, from the south
to spend the summer, and those from the north
to spend the winters there, the climate being ideal
as a summer or winter resort.
If these improvements are made, I shall be glad
to have our line, the Southern System, place Dal
ton in the summer and winter resort folders. I am,
Yours truly,
J. W. McCARSON,
City Passenger Agent.
Tuscaloosa, Ala., Nov. 18th, 1921.
CHEERY LAYS
for DREARY DAYS
By JAMES WELLS, The Printer-Poet
For It’s Thanksgiving.
Father in his study looking o’er his last month’s
bills,
And the means with which to pay them his mind
and body fills;
He says he’s glad'he need not buy more fall clothes
right away,
And that is why he’s tlfankful on this glad Thanks
giving Day.
Mother in the kitchen just as busy as a Turk,
For pies and cakes and turkey make an awful lot
of work;
She says she will be awful glad when pies are
laid away,
And that is why she’s thankful on this glad Thanks,
giving Day.
Sister's in the parlor where she’s spooning with
her beau,
She’s something over thirty—old-maidish-like, you
know;
At last she’s got a, sweetheart, and he seems to
want to stay,
And that is why she’s thankful on this glad
Thanksgiving Day:
Little Willie’s watching all the windows and the
toys,
And wondering what Old Santa Claus has thought
up new for boys;
For Christmas time is only now but just a month
away,
And that is why he’s thankful on this glad Thanks
giving Day.
Some Dogs.
The bulldog is a funny beast,
He never takes a trip,
And yet, wherever he may go,
He’s always got a grip.
—Dalton Citizen.
The hound is also a funny beast,
As around the house it creeps,
With its midnight howling—
When a fellow wants to sleep.
t —Manchester Mercury.
‘ And any dog’s a funny cuss,
When simmer heat-waves dance,
You see his pants in summer,
But winter time—no pants.
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Reason to Be Thankful.
There’s one thing for which
I am thankful, by cripe:
I need not eat chit’lings,
Nor drumsticks, nor tripe.
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And Again.
The man who’s always talking,
Has little “beans to spill;”
The brook does lots of babbling,
But it doesn’t run the mill.
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Thanksgiving Song.
01’ tu’key gobbler am a gobblin’ ’long,
An’ he think he king ob de stable,
Long kim a boy wid a great big ax—
An’ he gobblin’ on de table.
Den eberybody cum right erlong,
An’ set down to de table;
We’ll eat dat turk as sho’s yo’ born,
An’ gib thanks—if we’re able.
Unc. Billy Possum in a ’simmon tree,
Say he jes’ don’ gib a d—m;
’Long ernns er man wid a speckled pup,
An’ dey serve Unc. BiHy with yam.
Den eberybody cum right erlong,
An’ set down to de table;
Eat ’possum fat an‘ sich as that,
An’ gib thanks—if we’re able.
01’ dominecker he a-crowin’ ’roun,
01’ man he up an’ kill it,
Nex’ time ol’ dominecker crow,
He a-crowin’ in de skillet.
Den eberybody cum right erlong,
An’ set down to de table;
Wid chicken fried on ebery side,
An’ gib thanks—if we’re able.
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Life’s Supreme Joy.
To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen:
The greatest source of joy in this world is the
realization that some one loves you. The warm
hand clasp, the smiling face, the kindly glance
are more precious to me than riches, or fame, or
other earthly possessions. Give me the realiza
tion that you love me in spite of my weaknesses
and shortcomings and I will be happy though a
'legion of -devils encompass my soul.
And simple loves are best The brave knight
and his lady are all right in the story book, but
it seems to me they lived terribly topsy-turvy
lives. And they must have been heart hungry for
the peace and quiet of simple life. Brave deeds
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The Picture Proves Nothing..
Printing the picture of th egallows on which
it is claimed that American soldiers were executed
in France we regard as harmful, because it is
calculated to mislead the thoughtless.
This class, seeing the picture and learning* the
source from whence it came, wtil. regard it as
proving the absurd and malicious charge that
American soldiers were executed in France with
out trial, As a matter of fact, the picture proves
nothing, except that there were executions in
France, and that no one denies. It is stated by the
War Department, that nine American soldiers
were executed in France, seven of them for rape,
but the executions came only after due trial and |
conviction of heinous crimes; that none were exe
cuted for violations of the military laws. This
picture is of a .gallows said to have been used
at Is-sur-Tille, France. The surroundings shown
bear all the evidence of a legal execution. The
soldiers are at attention, and the condemned is
ascending to the scaffold. Senator Edge is author
ity for the statement that two negro soldiers were
hanged at this point, after a fair trial, and that
the crime for which they were hung w.as assault
on a seven-year-old French girl, who died within
less than a week. Affairs in this country have
reached a lamentable condition when men posing
as our statesmen'become the champions of negro
rapists. Printing the picture could serve no good
cause; at best it but panders to a morbid appetite
for the gruesome and sordid. It has possibilities
for harm, because those who intend to mislead
in the matter of the executions will point to it
as evidence, and the thoughtless, or those who
want to believe the falsehood, will accept it as
evidence.
It was a picture that would have been much
better left out of the newspapers.—Tifton Ga
zette.
Serving as Watson’s Substitute.
Slowly, but surely, the positipn taken, months
ago, by The Enquirer-Sun—that Thomas E. Wat
son, now serving a term in the United States
senate, ought to secure the release of David T.
Blodgett, now serving a term in the United States
penitentiary, or else “get in with him”—Is being
established; in fact, it has come to be asserted by
none other than Blodgett himself.
As has already been explained in these columns,
Blodgett was convicted in Iowa, under the espion
age act for reprinting and circulating speeches
made by Thomas E. Watson during the war; when
the latter was so viciously assailing the govern
ment the draft act and the nation’s war activities
generally—for which his own publication, the
Jeffersonian, was denied the use of the mails;
though Watson, himself, escaped prosecution and
punishment.
At the Thanksgiving Banquet.
He ate some turkey, lots of cake,
Mince pies and apple-butter,
And when they asked him for a toast,
He was “too full to utter.”
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Be Thankful Anyhow.
“There’s nothing to be thankful for,”
You say this glad Thanksgiving;
/ Why, man alive, if nothing else,
Be thankful you are living.
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A Naughty State!
Some states, I know, are staid and old
And straight as any pin;
But I am sure ’twbuld knock you cold,
Could you see Wiscon-sin.
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All It Lacks.
Said the watch:
“I wish I had a bed,
I would be fixed, b’jing;
Because already I’ve a “tick,”
■■ Besides, I have a spring.
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A Thanksgiving Hymn.
We thank Thee, Lord, for blessings sent
Adown the bygone year,
For many happy hours we’ve spent
With those we hold most dear.
We thank Thee for the common things,
The sunshine and the rain;
We thank Thee .Lord, for life itself—
Its pleasures, and its pain.
But Blodgett thinks it hard, not to say down
right unjust, that he should be serving a term
in a United States penitentiary for circulating
Watson’s seditious speeches, while Watson, him
self, is serving a term—or part of a term, as the
case may be—in the United States senate; and
Blodgett says so in a letter which he has sent to
President Harding, of which the following is a
part:
“I have been unlawfully imprisoned almost
four years for reprinting a speech sent un
sealed through the mails by Thomas E. Wat-
. son after the espionage act became a law.
If his speech constituted ~the crime alleged
against me (for which I am imprisoned as
Senator Watson’s substitute) congress would
not be so tyrannical as to fail to proceed
against him after having ousted Victor L.
Berger from congress for a similar alleged
offense.”
Blodgett goes on to say that he is, in reality,
merely serving a term in the penitentiary “as
Senator Watson’s substitute,” if one looks at it
the right -*yay. And, for the life of us, we don’t
see how anyone can*look, at it any other way.
So ,we say again, “Watson ought to get Blodgett
out, or else get in with him.”—Columbus Enquir
er-Sun.
In the beginning the earth was made round,
and it’s never been square since.—Columbia Rec
ord.
- The present situation affords considerable food
for thought, if hash can be called food.—San Diego
Tribune.